Robert Southey's Keswick: Enhancing Understanding of the Literary Culture of the Northern Lake District

该项目开发了开放获取的数字版《罗伯特·苏西的书信集：1791-1815》的影响。索西(1774-1843)是一位极具争议的浪漫主义桂冠诗人、散文家和历史学家，深受同时代人的喜爱和厌恶。他在北湖区集镇凯斯威克生活了40年，他的坟墓就在镇上的一个教堂墓地里。凯斯威克博物馆拥有独特的、大量的、未被充分利用的手稿、书籍、肖像和其他与索西、他的家人和朋友有关的手稿、书籍、肖像和其他物品。这个档案是收集信件的关键资源。凯斯威克博物馆是当地主要的遗产组织。2017-8年度，它接待了19,419名游客，并为邻近地区的约5600名学童提供了现场教育课程。该项目将与凯斯威克博物馆合作，帮助它改变向参观者和该地区重点第二阶段学校教师和学生展示索西和他的圈子的意义的方式。该项目的目标是：提高Keswick博物馆展示Southee和他的圈子作为游客景点的能力。发展凯斯威克博物馆在其南方藏品中的现场、可持续的专业知识。与Keswick博物馆合作，创建一个资源，鼓励参观者探索‘Southee’s Keswick‘s’，发现并享受该镇文化遗产的关键部分。扩大Keswick博物馆KS2教育计划的范围和范围，特别是在识字方面，并首次将Southee和他的圈子纳入其中。作为该地区更广泛的文化旅游战略的一部分，发展对索西和他与凯斯威克的关系的认识和知识。该项目团队将通过与凯斯威克博物馆合作开发利用其Southee藏品的新景点来实现这些目标。这些活动将包括展示博物馆的Southee藏品、一本旅游指南、一份带领参观者步行参观Southee‘s Keswick的传单，以及供第二阶段主要教师和从事扫盲工作的学生使用的教材。后者将包括一个“游览箱”，供无法参观博物馆的当地学校使用。该项目将通过培训凯斯威克博物馆的志愿者为游客解释新的Southee展示并提供有导游的步行参观，进一步丰富参观者的体验。湖泊文化的宣传发布将进一步促进‘Southee’s Keswick‘。这项工作是重要和及时的，因为它涉及到两个明确定义的当地需求：旅游经济和教育。湖区非常依赖旅游业来维持其经济，吸引了4100万人。每年都会来拜访。凯斯威克仍在从2016年的严重洪灾中恢复过来，并希望发展和增强其吸引游客的各方面能力。凯斯威克和北湖的文学遗产丰富，但相对不发达。它没有任何网站可以与Beatrix Potter相关的南湖网站吸引的访问量(每年25万访问量)相提并论。和威廉·华兹华斯(每年50000名游客)。这将利用一项关键的当地资源(凯斯威克博物馆的SouThe族藏品)来提高当地一位重要名人(Southee)和当地文化遗产的知名度和吸引力。因此，它为提高北湖地区一个潜在的重要文化目的地的价值提供了一个重要机会。通过与凯斯威克博物馆合作，加强和扩大与学校的合作，该项目还将为当地的教育议程做出贡献。它将使该地区的教师和学生能够使用并受益于利用当地文学遗产和当地历史的新的学习资源。Keswick博物馆将首次为那些距离更远、无法亲自参观该博物馆的学校提供“游览箱”。

This project develops the impact of the open access digital edition The Collected Letters of Robert Southey: 1791-1815. Loved and loathed by his contemporaries, Southey (1774-1843) was a highly controversial Romantic Poet Laureate, essayist and historian. He lived for 40 years in the north Lake District market town of Keswick and his grave is in one of the town's churchyards. The Keswick Museum holds a unique, substantial and underused collection of manuscripts, books, portraits and other items by and associated with Southey, his family and his friends. This archive was a key resource for The Collected Letters. Keswick Museum is the major local heritage organisation. In 2017-8 it welcomed 19,419 visitors and provided on-site educational sessions to c.5600 schoolchildren from the immediate surrounding area. This project will collaborate with Keswick Museum to help it transform the way it is able to present the significance of Southey and his circle to its visitors and to key stage 2 school teachers and pupils in the region. The project's objectives are:to increase Keswick Museum's ability to present Southey and his circle as a visitor attraction. to develop Keswick Museum's on-site, sustainable expertise in its Southey collections. to collaborate with Keswick Museum to create a resource encouraging visitors to explore 'Southey's Keswick' and to discover and enjoy a key part of the town's cultural heritage. to extend the reach and range of Keswick Museum's KS2 education programme, particularly in literacy, and embed Southey and his circle in it for the first time. to develop awareness and knowledge of Southey and his relationship to Keswick as part of the region's wider Cultural Tourism strategy. The project team will achieve these by working with Keswick Museum to develop new attractions that draw on its Southey collection. These will include a display of the Museum's Southey holdings, a guidebook, a leaflet taking visitors on a walking tour of 'Southey's Keswick', and educational materials for use by Key Stage 2 teachers and pupils working on literacy. The latter will include a 'touring box' that can be used by those local schools who are unable to visit the Museum. The project will further enrich visitors' experiences by training Keswick Museum's volunteers to interpret the new Southey display for visitors and to give guided walking tours. A publicity release for Lakes Culture will further promote 'Southey's Keswick'.This work is important and timely because it engages with two areas of well-defined local need: the tourist economy and education. The Lake District is exceptionally dependent on tourism to sustain its economy and attracts 41m. visits every year. Keswick is still recovering from the severe floods of 2016, and wishes to develop and grow all aspects of its ability to attract visitors. The literary heritage of Keswick and the north Lakes is rich, but comparatively under-developed. It has no sites that can compare with the visitor numbers attracted to sites in the south Lakes associated with Beatrix Potter (250k visitors p.a.) and William Wordsworth (50k visitors p.a.). This will use a key local resource (the Southey collection at Keswick Museum) to raise the visibility and attraction both of a key local celebrity (Southey) and of local cultural heritage. It thus offers a significant opportunity to enhance the value of a potentially important cultural destination in the north Lakes area. By collaborating with Keswick Museum to enhance and extend its work with schools, the project will also contribute to local educational agendas. It will allow teachers and pupils from the region to use and benefit from new learning resources that draw on their local literary heritage and their local history. For the first time, the provision of a 'touring box' will make Keswick Museum's educational offer available to those schools that are further afield and unable to visit the Museum in person.